I use ETTR all the time. Not because Michael Reichmann told me so but because I think my pictures look better when I pull the exposure down in my RAW converter. The pictures look richer somehow.
I guess sensors have advanced a lot since 2009 because pulling out the shadows in a 5D Mark II doesn't look so hot IMO.
The new Canon 1D X has built-in HDR, so you can expose AWYP (Any Way You Please) henceforth. Of course I always thought it was expose AWYP since forever.

By Ctein Got your attention, didn't I? Unless you don't know what I'm talking about. Lucky you. For those who haven't been force-fed this bit of dubious dogma, "Expose to the right" is a rule that asserts that to get the best quality in your digital photographs, you should push your exposure as ...

Oh wow, 1D X: I just 'upgraded' to the original 1Ds this year! Talk about being behind the curve (poverty ain't easy). Oh, I still can't find any explanation why I prefer the pictures out of the old 1Ds compared to the 5D Mk II (which I sold).

Canon's new pro flagship, the 1Dx Readers of dedicated camera sites and pros who use the company's top models will already be aware that Canon has announced the successor of its professional flagship model. Re my discussion under the heading of the Sony A77 the other day, the new camera follows...

Whoa, $16.60 per sheet? I'd better learn not to gripe so much about the cost of 8x10 film then!
I believe that the best smartphone camera resides in the Nokia N8. I'd be very impressed if the iPhone 4S produces better pictures than the N8: I have made many awesome pet kitty pictures from it.

Our friend Keith Canham with his 20x24-inch view camera You knew there'd be a large format (LF) camera on this list, if only to show solidarity with that French Foreign Legion of photography, those resolute and brave outcasts the LF aficionados. They didn't need digital for their medium to beco...

At every AA or NA meeting, a word of sympathy or prayer is usually spoken on behalf of the "still-suffering" alcoholic or addict—those who haven't had their eyes opened yet and are not yet trying to kick their habit. Today is my 21st anniversary clean and sober. I got out of detox and rehab at S...

Lots of people probably won't read the previous post. People like "right-sized" posts and don't tend to read the long ones. (Same with comments.) I woke up this morning meaning to add a very short coda to yesterday's post, before I get started watching the golf, to the effect that good habits ju...

I am the virtuous film photographer. After having eschewed a 5D Mk II to lug a 6 kilo medium format kit around London, I have surely now ascended to the level of Deity. Fellow tourists gawk at my camera as they prostrate themselves at the altar of 'Rolleiflex'. They are awed by my bad mood when my Pan F supply runs out, and they are humbled by my piety as I kneel and face east for a roll-film change every 20 minutes.
Temptations in the desert? Ha! I have Schneider locust Kool-Aid. What have you got? 20 megapixels? Plebe.
Frankly, Ctein needs to be washed clean in the Holy Water Bath.

By Ctein In keeping with the moral tone that Mike has recently set on The Online Photographer, this week I'm going to write about virtuous photography. Well, to be truthful, this column came out of a conversation over pizza with David Dyer-Bennet a good month ago, and I'd been planning all along...